The 1686 arrival year conflicts with the estimated marriage of 1683 with Anne Marie Dillenschneider, however Samuel's birth location of Obersteigen and Dabo are only just over seven kilometres apart, making the 1683 marriage still possible. It has also been recorded that Samuel's father was the village pastor in Allenwiller, also within easy walking distnace of both Dabo and Obersteigen.

Siblings

Years ago I found a reference to Samuel having a brother, whose name was unknown, since then I have found a baptism for Jacobus Ruffenach in 1677, however the location for this baptism is halfway back to Berne from Dabo which raises some questions about whether his parents returned to Switzerland at some point or maybe they just left the area due to military conflicts.

Other information which points towards Samuel's potential siblings is that there are a few Ruffenach's from Dabo who have been listed in some family trees as being Samuel's children however they were born significantly prior to Samuel and Anne Marie's marriage. Although not impossible that they are Samuel's children based on their estimated birth years, it could also be that the estimates were arrived at to potentially fit into a likely time period which would make them his children.

Remembering that many early records only listed the fathers name, Samuel's father was also named Samuel and he was originally from Berne so it seems likely that the Ruffenach family from Berne who arrived in Dabo after the younger Samuel's marriage to a Dabo local was possibly his parents. Along with this information, the other recorded Ruffenach's in Dabo could easily be his father's children.